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If you have a twitter account, you probably follow @AndrewBynum. Well check out your “Following” list. You are no longer following the Lakers center. It no longer exists. Bynum was active on the account as early as yesterday. It raises the question if recent trade rumors are the reason the account was deleted? The account was deleted sometime in-between Sunday [...]

Every team will have to play at least one back-to back-to back this season, but no more than three sets per team. The Lakers will waste no time as they kick their season right off with three games in three days. Mike Breshnahan, of the LA Times has obtained details of the NBA schedule that will be released officially on [...]

We heard rumblings of this during the Lakers exit meetings. Andrew Bynum said during his exit meeting with the media the he expects to be a bigger part of the team this season, and will work during the offseason to do just that. When told of Bynum’s comments, Kobe Bryant immediately made sure Bynum knew who the top dogs were on the [...]

The Lakers could use a perimeter shooter, and according to Yahoo Sports the Lakers are meeting with Jason Kapono today: [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/WojYahooNBA/status/143741732746571776"] Jason Kapono has averaged 6.9 points per game in his career. Kapono is known for his sharp shooting from the outside, as he has averaged 43.7% from beyond the arc in his eight year career. Free agency does [...]

The 2011-12 season is definitely a season Derek Fisher has never experienced before. He is coming off an 149 day lockout in which he played the role of the Players Association President. Spending marathon sessions in the negotiating room, in what was considered a very exhausting process. Now at 37 years old, Fisher enters a season where it is not [...]

TNT is excited to add Shaquille O’Neal to an already Emmy award winning cast of characters. Shaq will sit along side Ernie Johnson, Kenny “The Jet” Smith, and Charles Barkley for the 2011-2012 season. With the excitement of an NBA season, and a new cast. The NBA and TNT have released a new campaign entitled, “Big Things Are Coming” starring [...]

Let the rivalry continue. In a recent marketing campaign, the Boston Celtics take a shot at the Los Angeles Lakers. The shot? “I am not Hollywood” The above video from the Celtics is not the best campaign ever created. But, it is certainly not the worst. The worst marketing campaign of all time may have been last season when the [...]

Video Courtesy: ESPNLA Matt Barnes played with Dwight Howard down in Orlando two seasons ago, and is still friends to this day. Barnes even recently played in a “Former Magic vs. Current Magic“ charity game with Dwight back in November. According to Matt Barnes, Dwight Howard and Baron Davis want to be in LA: Question:  There’s one rumor out there involving a furmor teammate of [...]

Andrew Bynum is used to trade rumors by now. Whether it was Carmelo Anthony last year, or Kevin Garnett a few years back. It seems ever since Bynum has been picked 10th overall by the Lakers, he has been rumored to be traded. As we all know, Bynum is now rumored to be a piece the Lakers use to acquire, [...]

Let the Dwight Howard trade talks continue. Jim Buss has been known as the one person in the Lakers organization that has been obsessed with Andrew Bynum. On one side you can argue that Bynum is immature and extremely injury prone. However, it seems Jim has always taken the other side. Looking at Bynum with the potential of being a dominant All-Star [...]

Dwight Howard wants out of Orlando; that’s pretty obvious. He’s probably not conscious of it but quotes from Howard over the last year or so can allow us to safely assume what teams he would allow a trade to. Howard was asked whether he sees himself playing in a much larger market back in October. “There’s more you can do in [...]

David Brickley caught up with 4 Time NBA Champion Shaquille O’Neal. He was on hand in Santa Monica, CA last night to sign his new book “Shaq Uncut: My Story” Shaq talks about the favorite to win the 2012 NBA title, his new job with TNT, the most enthusiastic moment of his career, and who was the most annoying defender he ever [...]

Former LA Times Lakers reporter, Mark Heisler, now works over at Sheridanhoops.com In a recent column he explains that the Lakers didn’t get such a bad deal after all. In regards to the new CBA that the players and owners have agreed to. Heisler points out that the NBA did not get a full ban on sign-and-trades. With that being [...]

Shaquille O’Neal joined KTLA Channel 5 on Monday morning to promote his new book “Shaq Uncut: My Story”. O’Neal talked about the NBA lockout, his relationship with his father, and of course his former teammate Kobe Bryant. The quote that created headlines was what Shaq had to say about Kobe, and where Bryant ranks amongst the all-time Laker greats: “Based [...]